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30 October 2014 |
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Official opening of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre
On Friday evening, LSE’s first new
building on campus for 40 years, the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, was
officially opened by Professor Saw Swee Hock. The reception was attended
by around 300 people, a mixture of LSE staff, students and alumni,
donors to the project and representatives from the architects and
contractors involved in the build who were treated to a spectacular 3D
mapping experience.
Events throughout the whole day
celebrated the official opening of the new student centre. There was a
variety of activities ranging from a discussion between former
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Professor Bruno Latour, a
special university challenge which saw LSE academics Danny Quah and
Charlie Beckett on opposing sides, as well as a special episode of the
Gearty Grillings which saw the tables turned on Conor as he was grilled
by LSESU General Secretary Nona Buckley-Irvine.
Take a look at the Grilling here.
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LSE IDEAS to bid farewell to Odd Arne Westad at end of this academic
year
Odd Arne Westad, the director of LSE IDEAS, has announced that he will be
stepping down as head of the centre at the end of the academic year 2014-15.
Professor Westad has been director of LSE IDEAS – a centre he co-founded
with Professor Michael Cox – since 2008.
Professor Westad will be taking up the ST Lee Chair in US-Asian Relations
at Harvard from next academic year and will be teaching in the Kennedy
School of Government there.
He said: “It is a new challenge, very different from teaching at LSE in
many ways. What I will miss most, I think, is teaching undergraduates – I
have always enjoyed that part of the job here immensely. And, of course, the
hustle and bustle of LSE IDEAS!”
Read an interview with Professor Westad
here.
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Sustainalytics Award for Dr Daniel Beunza
Dr Daniel Beunza, Department of Management, has won the Sustainalytics
Award from the Academic Network of the
Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI), a United Nations-supported
investor coalition that promotes sustainable investment. Dr
Beunza received the award for his research on responsible investment
with his paper, 'Why talk? A process model of dialogue in shareholder
engagement', which was written with
Fabrizio Ferraro of IESE Business School.
Katherine Ng,
PRI Academic Network Manager,
said: “the quality of submissions this year was outstanding overall, making
the work of the judging panel very difficult. We congratulate all those who
submitted papers”.
More
See the full paper in LSE Research Online
here.
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Academics abroad
Dr Katerina Dalacoura
Dr Katerina Dalacoura, Department of International Relations, presented
a paper on ‘Islamism and Neo-liberalism in the Aftermath of the 2011
Arab Uprisings: The Freedom and Justice Party in Egypt and Nahda in
Tunisia’ at the Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics,
International Relations Department, Koc University, on Wednesday 22
October; and at the International Studies Seminar of the Faculty of Arts
and Social Science, Sabanci University on Thursday 23 October. Both
universities are in Istanbul, Turkey.
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 Notices
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LSE Research Festival Exhibition 2015:
call for submissions
Researchers across the School can now submit works for next year’s
Research Festival Exhibition. We are seeking posters, photographs and short
films that convey research in compelling ways and open up dialogue with
visitors to the exhibition.
More information, details about workshops that will facilitate production
of exhibits, and entry forms at
LSE Research Festival.
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Staff spaces on Entrepreneurship
Matters
There are a limited number of staff places left on LSE
Entrepreneurship’s new course,
Entrepreneurship Matters.
The course will provide you with a wide range of perspectives on
entrepreneurship, fostering your capabilities for entrepreneurial
thinking and action. Each of its seven sessions will be led by a
globally recognised speaker from different entrepreneurial areas of
expertise, including founders and CEOs of global companies, experts in
the area of social entrepreneurship and a chief economist.
The sessions will take place on selected Tuesdays from 6.30pm, and will
include a talk from the guest speaker, followed by a Q&A and networking.
More details of the schedule and the speakers can be found
here. Email
entrepreneurship@lse.ac.uk for a place.
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Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education
The Queen's Anniversary Prizes are a biennial award scheme within the
UK’s national honours system and run by The Royal Anniversary Trust.
They are the UK’s most prestigious form of national recognition open to
a UK academic or vocational institution. The honour is distinctive in
recognising the institution rather than an individual or team.
Proposals for the School’s submission to the prizes are now welcomed. The
work submitted will need to excel in the following criteria:
LSE has won the Prize twice before, first in 2002 in the Humanities, Social
Science and Law category for ‘Unemployment and inequality: research,
teaching and policy development’ and then, in 2009, in the Medicine, Health
& Welfare category for ‘Applying research to the advancement of global
health and social care policy’.
Email secretary@lse.ac.uk for an
outline proposal form. If you have any questions about the requirements,
please email David Coombe at d.coombe@lse.ac.uk.
More information can be found
here.
The deadline for internal submissions is 5pm on Monday 8 December 2014,
with forms returned to
secretary@lse.ac.uk.
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Become a HOST this Christmas
Christmas can be a lonely time for those far from home. International
students at LSE have the chance to apply to HOST for a visit to a ‘real
home’, where they can have a relaxing break and learn about the way of
life here while making friends and sharing their own culture. HOST is a
charity which helps international students make international
friendships and experience life in the UK by arranging visits for them
to stay at HOST volunteers' homes.
HOST urgently needs to hear from anyone who could help by offering a day
visit or very short stay during the vacation, or over Christmas itself.
A little help with expenses is offered if required, but the true reward
is in the interest for all the family, and the appreciation of the
guests. Visit www.hostuk.org for
more information and please offer HOST an invitation if you can!
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LSE History blog
In the latest post on the LSE History blog, Professor Martin Bauer
writes about the emergence of the Department of Social Psychology at LSE
against the backdrop of the global turbulence and technological
innovation of the 1960s. This post is part of the Department of Social
Psychology’s the
50th anniversary celebrations.
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New LSE Circles Choir
Release endorphins, activate cognitive functions, reduce stress levels
and improve memory, all with a good sing! The Disability and Wellbeing
Service and the LSE Circles Network have formed a new choir, the LSE
Circles Choir, and everyone of every ability is welcome to join.
Join the choir at their meetings every Wednesday at 4-5.30pm in the
LSE Faith Centre, Saw Swee Hock Student Centre. For more
information, email Sheila at
s.blankfield@lse.ac.uk.
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SCR event - The Night Shift
The Night Shift is run by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. It
specialises in unique classical nights, bringing you great music in a
relaxed and contemporary setting, outside of the usual concert hall. The
music is introduced by the musicians, or an MC, and you’re encouraged to
ditch the irksome classical rules – so feel free to have a drink, cough and
clap when you like.
An ensemble of six professional musicians will present a programme based
around Purcell in the Shaw Library. Tickets are £10, which includes a free
welcome drink and nibbles.
Join the SCR committee on Thursday 13 November in the Shaw Library -
doors open at 6pm with the event starting at 6.30pm until 8pm
Tickets can be booked in advance with Veronique Mizgailo,
v.mizgailo@lse.ac.uk.
Tickets may also be available on the door on the night.
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What do you think of the LSE Facilities Guide?
LSE Estates Division want to know what you think of their Facilities
Guide. Is it useful? Is the format clear and helpful? Is there anything that
could be done better?
Tell them what you think in their short survey
here. It
has just five questions and your answers will help shape future editions of
the guide.
The guides are produced particularly to help new students and staff at
the start of each academic year, but copies can be obtained
from
estates.admin@lse.ac.uk or
viewed online at the Facilities Guide
webpages.
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Managing Excel tables across page breaks in Word documents
Page breaks can make even the most beautifully formatted table look sloppy.
Here is how to fix two of the most common problems.
To force a table to start on the next page if it won’t fit on the
current page:
- Select the table.
- From the Home tab, open the Paragraph dialog box by
clicking on the tiny grey arrow in the bottom right corner of the
Paragraph icon group.
- On the Line and Page Breaks tab, click Keep with Next.
To prevent a row from splitting across a page break:
- Select the row.
- On the Home tab, open the Paragraph dialog box as
outlined above.
- On the Line and Page Breaks tab, click Page Break Before.
- Click OK to close the dialog box.
If you have an IT question, check out our
online guides and FAQs or attend our weekly
Software Surgeries. Alternatively, staff and PhD students are invited to
enrol for a 1-2-1 IT Training session. Or contact
IT.Training@lse.ac.uk to
book a consultation with a training specialist.
A huge range of additional computer training resources is available via
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IT Training website.
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture features students in drag in Sheffield Street at the
official opening of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre on Friday 24
October 2014.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Research
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Parents less likely to monitor their children's internet use if
accessed via smartphones
Parents are less likely to closely supervise their child's internet use
if they are accessing the internet using a smartphone or tablet finds
the latest report from EU Kids Online at LSE. This is despite the fact
that children experience an increased online risk when accessing the
internet through a smartphone or tablet device.
The report, produced in association with Net Children Go Mobile, finds that
this relaxation of parental monitoring if children are on handheld devices
is due to the fact that both parents and children are more likely to view
the use of smartphones and tablets as ‘private’. This means that parents are
less likely to pry into their children’s smartphone use, and children are
more likely to resent it when they do.
More
See the full report in LSE Research Online
here.
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Does having children make us any happier?
The birth of a first and a second child briefly increases the level of
their parents’ happiness, but a third does not, according to new research
from LSE and Western University, Canada.
According to the research, published in the journal Demography,
parents’ happiness increases in the year before and after the birth of a
first child, it then quickly decreases and returns to their ‘pre-child’
level of happiness.
More
See the full report in LSE Research Online
here.
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New Gearty Grilling online
A new Gearty Grilling video, part of the series of short video debates
between Conor Gearty, director of the IPA and professor of human rights law,
and leading researchers at LSE, is now online.
This week, Lilie Chouliaraki, Professor of Media and Communications,
discusses the moral implications of the use of celebrities by humanitarian
organisations.
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 Events
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'Food Policy: ethics for your kitchen and beyond' - on Tuesday
4 November at 6.45pm in the New Theatre, East Building with Professor
Luc Bovens, Elena Rivilla Lutterkort (pictured), Duncan Williamson
Food production and consumption are changing. What are the ethics and
policy issues on your dinner plate today?
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'Shared Responsibility: the importance of international partnerships
to homeland security' - on Wednesday 5 November at 5.15pm in the
New Theatre, East Building with Alejandro Mayorkas
The Deputy Secretary of US Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro N
Mayorkas, will discuss the close partnership between the United Kingdom
and the United States on a variety of Homeland Security issues,
including counter-terrorism, aviation security, cyber security, travel
and trade, and countering violent extremism.
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Lunchtime Concert with
cellist Florian Rohn-Arnicans and pianist Arta Arnicane - on
Thursday 6 November at 1.05pm in the Shaw Library, sixth floor, Old
Building
The pieces played will include Beethoven's Piano Sonata in F Major
Op 10 No.2.
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'Planetary Economics: macroeconomic and international implications'
- on Thursday 6 November at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre,
Clement House with Professor Michael Grubb
Professor Grubb assesses lessons from 20 years of debate on
technology, economic dimensions of global energy and environmental
problems from corresponding policy efforts.
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'On Fantasy Island: British politics, English judges and the European
Convention on Human Rights' - on Thursday 6 November at 6.30pm in
the Old Theatre, Old Building with Professor Conor Gearty
Conor Gearty unpicks the myths, illusions and downright lies that infect
political engagement with human rights in Britain - and discussion of
the Human Rights Act in particular.
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'A Post-Genomic Surprise: the molecular re-inscription of race in
science, law and medicine' - on Thursday 6 November at 6.30pm in
the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building with Professor Troy
Duster
Professor Duster will analyse the resurgence of the idea that racial
taxonomies deployed to explain complex social behaviours and outcomes
have a biological and
genetic basis.
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'European challenges and the French economic strategy' - on
Friday 7 November at 5pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building with Emmanuel
Macron
On 26 August 2014, Emmanuel Macron was appointed Minister for the
Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs in the government headed up by
Manuel Valls. His mandate is to ensure France’s economic recovery.
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'The Need to Censor Our Dreams' - on Tuesday 11 November with
Professor Slavoj Zizek
Tickets will be released on Monday 3 November
Critique of ideology should not begin with the critique of reality, but
with the critique of our dreams. As Herbert Marcuse put it back in the
1960s, freedom (from ideological constraints, from the predominant mode
of dreaming) is the condition of liberation. If we only change reality
in order to realise our dreams, and do not change these dreams
themselves, we sooner or later regress to old reality.
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'The Affordable Care Act in the US: How did it happen and where is it
taking the health care system?' - on Thursday 30 October at
6.30pm in CLM 3.02 with Professor Lawrence D Brown
The Affordable Care Act, signed into law in the US in 2010, is considered
the largest reform to the American health care system since Medicare began
insuring the elderly in 1965. Prof Lawrence Brown will trace the evolution
of this health reform and what it means for the future of health care in the
US and around the world.
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Social Psychology Open Lectures: 'Social Presentations' - on
Tuesday 4 November at 2.15-3.45pm in the Old Theatre with Professor
Sandra Jovchelovitch
What is social knowledge and how do we come to know and make sense of
the social world? Do we inherit knowledge and traditions from previous
generations or do we think for ourselves? Is social knowledge always
about finding a consensus or is difference of opinion the basis of
social knowledge?
This event is free and open to all.
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'God Save the Community: Greece's entry into the EEC' - on
Wednesday 5 November at 6.30pm in room 9.04, Tower 2 with Dr Eirini
Karamouzi and Dr Piers Ludlow
The financial and economic crises that gripped Greece in 2010 set in
motion a domino effect that upset the stability of the Euro. It opened the
floodgates to a seemingly endless stream of accusations and recriminations
over the economic, financial and political origins of the Greek crisis, with
European political elites and the press alike questioning even Greece’s
entry to the EEC.
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'The EU, Russia and Ukraine: Lessons learned' - on Thursday 6
November at 6.30pm in the Wolfson Theatre, NAB with Dr Tomila Lankina,
Professor Karen E Smith, Professor Vladislav Zubok and Dr Gwendolyn Sasse
LSE experts will be debating what the EU got right and what it got wrong in
the political crisis that followed Ukraine’s refusal to sign the Association
Agreement in November 2013.
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Tackling youth unemployment - on Thursday 13 November in
Madrid LSE Enterprise and the Center for Monetary and Financial
Studies (CEMFI) are hosting an IZA World of
Labor event which will bring together a panel of speakers from the
economics and labour market community. It will put Spain in a comparative
context by considering: What does youth unemployment look like today? What
evidence exists from other countries on successful policies in tackling
youth unemployment? What policies can be proposed for the current situation?
What is the role of apprenticeships and vocational qualifications in helping
get young people into employment?
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Exhibition: 'Afghanistan: The transition' - from 26 October - 28
November, Monday - Friday, at 10am-8pm in the Atrium Gallery
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), in collaboration with documentary
photographers Andrea Bruce and Mikhail Galustov, present a series of highly
evocative photographs capturing personal stories from MSF’s Afghanistan
projects to highlight the serious ongoing problems of accessing basic health
care in Afghanistan.
This exhibition is open to all, no ticket required. For more information
see the
website, or email arts@lse.ac.uk.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
In Search of Human Uniqueness
Speaker: Professor Michael Tomasello
Recorded: Monday 20 October 2014, approx. 21 minutes
Do We Need to Shake Up the Social Sciences?
Speakers: Professor Nicholas Christakis, Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Dr
Amanda Goodall, Professor Andrew Oswald
Recorded: Tuesday 21 October 2014, approx. 84 minutes
The Social Life of Money
Speaker: Professor Nigel Dodd
Recorded: Thursday 23 October 2014, approx. 90 minutes
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 60
second interview
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with.....Sara Feast
I joined LSE a few months ago as
the Communications and Events
Officer at LSE Entrepreneurship,
which is a brand new unit exploring
the impact of entrepreneurship and
entrepreneurial thinking. We only
launched in October and our first
course, Entrepreneurship Matters,
doesn’t start until the end of
November. There are still some staff
places left, so do get in touch if
you’re interested in joining and
take a look
here.
What is the best part of your
job at LSE?
LSE Entrepreneurship is a start-up
of sorts, and so every time we work
out a problem, develop an idea for
an event or write a press release,
it’s building something new. I’ve
always worked at very established
places - like big companies or
national newspapers - so that
feeling’s a new experience, and an
immensely satisfying one.
If you could book any guest
speaker for an LSE public event, who
would you choose?
The speaker line-up is always
amazing, but as someone with an arts
and humanities background, I always
especially look forward to the
Literary Festival. I heard a rumour
that one of my old medieval history
tutors may be booked for next year –
I won’t say who but that would be
exciting.
If you had a time machine,
where and to what era would you go?
With my entrepreneurial hat on, I’d
nip back ten years and invest in
something like Facebook. Though I
think the first rule of time travel
is that you shouldn’t change
anything, so that’s probably a
terrible idea.
Instead I’d stay in London, but
go back 400 years to see what the
city was like before the Great Fire.
A lot has changed, but I think a
surprising amount would still be
recognisable. I volunteer at Sutton
House, a Tudor property in Hackney,
so I’d pay that a visit too. Back
then Hackney was a small, rural
village a half day’s journey from
London – that’s unimaginable now!
What, or who, makes you laugh?
Different things on different days,
depending on my mood, the weather
and if I’m hungry. Small dogs can
almost always raise a smile.
What is your most treasured
possession?
My most treasured one will remain a
secret in case anyone tries to steal
it, but a significant one is a $5
Bellagio chip from a trip to Las
Vegas. I lost all my money, won it
back and then lost it again – I’d
never gambled before, and the chip’s
a reminder of why I won’t again. |
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 Training
and jobs
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Knowledge Exchange and Impact Masterclass
- on Tuesday 4 November at 12.30-2pm in Room 9.04, Tower Two
Limited places are still available for faculty or for professional services
staff with a direct interest to attend the Knowledge Exchange and Impact
Masterclass. The session's theme will be the roles that LSE faculty can play
in the work of government commissions, now or in the future. Our
distinguished panel includes: Professors John Hills, Eileen Munro and Tony
Travers, chaired by Professor Julia Black, Pro-Director for Research. Lunch
will be provided and further KEI Masterclasses, hosted by the Institute of
Public Affairs, will be held in the Lent and Summer terms. Please RSVP to
conferences@lse.ac.uk if you
would like to attend.
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Introducing IMT’s Tech Talks: information technology seminars and
knowledge exchange
IMT is pleased to present Tech Talks: a series of seminars covering a
range of specialist subjects for those working in or with information
technologies.
The first talk is 'Application Integration: The Merits of Messaging' on
Wednesday 5 November at 4.30pm in 32LIF.LG03. Application integration is
one of the major challenges facing Enterprises today. Find out how Chris
Fryer from Learning Technology and Innovation and Caroline Hague from
Development used messaging technologies to integrate Moodle with LSE For
You, and find out more about the challenges and merits of messaging compared
with other ways of integrating applications. Please note that attendees
should have some technical knowledge – this seminar is not suitable for a
general, non-technical audience.
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Facing the media - on Wednesday 5 November at 10.45am-5pm
LSE staff are regularly contacted by the media to talk about their
research. This one-day workshop offers practical guidance on working with
TV, radio and newspapers. The day will include advice on TV interviewing and
participants will have the opportunity of being interviewed by an
experienced media interviewer, which will be recorded on video, and reviewed
in a small group.
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Training and development opportunities for staff
Courses scheduled for next week include:
These are just some of the events running in the next week. To receive a
monthly summary of all training courses, subscribe to email list by clicking
here and pressing send. To find out more about training and development
across the school and for links to booking pages, see
lse.ac.uk/training.
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Core Learning and Development Programme - training and development
opportunities for staff
For all staff:
For managers:
Visit
Core Learning and Development Programme to find a comprehensive list of
other courses available this academic year. If you have any queries or
require additional information, email
hr.learning@lse.ac.uk.
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Jobs at LSE Below are some of the vacancies currently being
advertised to internal candidates only, as well as those being advertised
externally.
- Assistant Archivist, Library: Archives Services
- Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting
- Assistant Professor, Department of Economic History
- Assistant Professor, Department of International History
- Digital Marketing and Recruitment Executive, Summer School
and Executive Programmes
- Legal Officer, GLPD: Governance, Legal, Planning Division
- Programme Coordinator, Department of Management
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
vacancies' heading. |
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